982 – “Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”

-Neil deGrasse Tyson

864 – “The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday, and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”

–Neil deGrasse Tyson

739 – “We have a genetic kinship with all life on Earth, an atomic kinship to all matter in the cosmos. So when I look at the Universe, I feel large, because I remind myself that not only are we living in this Universe, the Universe is living within us.”

–Neil deGrasse Tyson

279 – “You get to say the world is flat because we live in a country that guarantees your free speech, but it’s not a country that guarantees that everything you say is correct.”

–Neil deGrasse Tyson

75 – “Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.”

– Neil deGrasse Tyson [Possible paraphrasing, see Source Note]

33 – “…Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.”

– Neil deGrasse Tyson [See source notes for link to a transcript and video of his entire speech]